BEA and BOAC Cadet Pilots Hamble Brochures circa 1962
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BEA and BOAC Cadet Pilots Hamble Brochures circa 1962
I've been in the loft again and unearthed a brochure relating to the the BEA "Cadet Pilots Scheme"
and then I found the BOAC equivalent . Many more pages, and would you believe that at the age of 28 you might be earning £2000 per annum!! (page 3)
Unfortunately, I could not get the centre pages to upload. They are photographic pages, with "BOAC Headquarters in the centre, surrounded by photos of The Royal Family disembarking from a DH Comet, a Boeing 707, Alcock and Brown statue with DH Comet in the background, and a Bristol Britannia.
and then I found the BOAC equivalent . Many more pages, and would you believe that at the age of 28 you might be earning £2000 per annum!! (page 3)
Unfortunately, I could not get the centre pages to upload. They are photographic pages, with "BOAC Headquarters in the centre, surrounded by photos of The Royal Family disembarking from a DH Comet, a Boeing 707, Alcock and Brown statue with DH Comet in the background, and a Bristol Britannia.
DGAC,
This needs to go on the College of Air Training website. I have emailed the coordinator of this site suggesting that he contact you.
https://sites.google.com/site/collegeofairtraining/
This needs to go on the College of Air Training website. I have emailed the coordinator of this site suggesting that he contact you.
https://sites.google.com/site/collegeofairtraining/
What does the contribution of £1,000 equate to in today’s money? I know that when I first started work in the 1960’s they talked of a £1,000 per year man as being pretty well off.
The salary range of £2 to £5K for qualified Pilot is an eye opener as well.
The salary range of £2 to £5K for qualified Pilot is an eye opener as well.
That is a great find, thanks for sharing it! Interesting to see the same Chipmunk G-AMUC turning up, which is also shown on my site here: http://www.vc10.net/Memories/IFRcockpit.html (scroll down).
I was hod carrying for that sort of money in the mid sixties. “the caring” corporations took the grand back after tax. My starting pay was around a grand gross in 1971..bit more than half of that net. £600 for an instructor rating at booker at corporations subsidised rates with the fabulous Joan Hughes.
But we had to do two years SO, two years AFO and then we got Dan Air starting pay. 79 I joined the Swiss leaving 7 year SFO pay..gross starting pay was double ..net around four times..couldn’t tell my mates as they wouldn’t believe it.
But we had to do two years SO, two years AFO and then we got Dan Air starting pay. 79 I joined the Swiss leaving 7 year SFO pay..gross starting pay was double ..net around four times..couldn’t tell my mates as they wouldn’t believe it.
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Interesting that the 707 in the BOAC pamphlet doesn't feature the 'D P Davies' mods - heightened fin (to improve directional stability and engine-out handling) and ventral fin (to prevent over-rotation on take-off). Is the photo a mock-up or a Boeing demonstrator in BOAC livery?
Interesting that the 707 in the BOAC pamphlet doesn't feature the 'D P Davies' mods - heightened fin (to improve directional stability and engine-out handling) and ventral fin (to prevent over-rotation on take-off). Is the photo a mock-up or a Boeing demonstrator in BOAC livery?
BOAC didn't have -320s then.
-20 is the customer code for Boeing, BOAC used -36. BOAC did operate the -336 and the -436. According to Hansard the -336 were delivered in factory condition and were modified after flight test by the ARB. In the photo the engines do look like Conways, was this taken before DPD got his hands on it?
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In the same way that, for example, BA's 747-436s can also be (and are) correctly described as 747-400s.
I'm not sure if that gets us any further forward with identifying the touched up 707, if that's what it is. A big more digging suggests that it might in fact be a pre-delivery (pre-mod) -436 publicity photo, and there's a Flight photo from September 1959 that shows one in that condition prior to delivery to BOAC. That would fit with the vintage of the Hamble brochure.
I disagree wholeheartedly with your first two paragraphs, especially with regard to how aircraft appear on the UK registers. There is nothing accurate about it.
Your notion is that of an amateur’s description.It also does not conform with the code used on flightplans.
Your notion is that of an amateur’s description.It also does not conform with the code used on flightplans.
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A Boeing 707-338C (for example those still flying with Omega Air) would be flightplanned as "B703", which decodes as "Boeing 707-300". ATC couldn't care less that "38" is Qantas's customer code, and I'd hardly describe them as "amateurs".
Likewise, any airline's 747-400s (say BA's 747-436s or Singapore's 747-412Fs) would be flightplanned as "B744" ("Boeing 747-400").
See https://www.icao.int/publications/do...s/default.aspx
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Pic of G-AMUH - DC-3 looming above the photographer?
It certainly looks like one.
Hard to tell whether it's at Hamble or the Chippie is on a cross-country somewhere.
Edit: Probably at Hamble - the College apparently had several DC-3s, presumably as ground instructional trainers.
Hard to tell whether it's at Hamble or the Chippie is on a cross-country somewhere.
Edit: Probably at Hamble - the College apparently had several DC-3s, presumably as ground instructional trainers.
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